Los Angeles, California, jazz dancer Kelly works as a waitress while taking classes with a demanding teacher, Franco. Her friend, Vicky, fears Kelly is stuck in her career and gives her the business card of a talent agent named James. After class, Franco offers Kelly extra help, but she is suspicious of his intentions and declines. Kelly instead gives her friend Adam a ride to Venice Beach, where they join a crowd watching Adam’s friends, “Ozone” and “Turbo,” break dancing. Ozone teaches Kelly dance moves and gives her a street name, “Special K.” The crowd breaks up when a rival dance group, Electro Rock, arrives. Later, Ozone and Turbo visit Kelly at Franco’s Dance Academy. They demonstrate their street moves to the class, but Franco is unimpressed and asks them to leave. Kelly apologizes to Franco and he warns her to stay away from the breakdancers. While introducing Kelly to the music for an upcoming show he is choreographing, Franco kisses her passionately, but she objects and flees the studio. That night, the Electro Rock dancers challenge Ozone and Turbo to a dance-off. Ozone does not think Electro Rock is a worthy opponent, but Turbo convinces him that they have been disrespected and must assert their superior skills. A few days later, Adam asks Kelly why she has not been attending Franco’s class and she replies that she is busy working double-shifts at the restaurant. She meets with the agent, James, who promises to send her on auditions. However, the auditions do not go well and Kelly grows discouraged, believing she needs a change. Adam invites her to a club called Radiotron where they watch Ozone and Turbo out-dance Electro Rock, until the group unleashes their secret weapon, a female dancer. The crowd’s favor shifts to Electro Rock and Ozone and Turbo leave the club, defeated. The next day, Adam and Kelly visit Ozone and Turbo at the garage, where they live and work on their dance moves. Kelly compliments them on their performance, dismissing the female dancer as a gimmick. Ozone insists that the girl was good, but Kelly declares that she is better. Adam suggests that Ozone and Turbo incorporate Kelly into their act, and offers to act as their manager. Turbo is reluctant, but Ozone begins teaching Kelly to break dance. Kelly learns quickly, wins over Turbo, and the foursome celebrate at lunch. At the restaurant, a group of country music fans mock them and Turbo maneuvers them into a fight. Later, Ozone hopes for a romance with Kelly, but she keeps the relationship professional. The following day, James dismisses Kelly’s street dancing, but she convinces him watch her dance with Ozone and Turbo at Radiotron in a rematch with Electro Rock. At the club, Kelly, Ozone, and Turbo win the dance-off, and James is impressed. However, Ozone’s feelings are hurt when Kelly chooses to leave with James rather than stay and celebrate. The next day, Kelly tells Ozone about a major production for which James wants the group to audition, but Ozone rejects help from the agent. Later, James throws a lavish party to introduce the trio to important people in the dance community. Franco insults Ozone, who in turn attacks him, then leaves the party with Turbo. Kelly confronts Franco, and James asks him to leave as well. A few days later, Kelly finds Ozone sulking at the beach and they argue because he does not want to participate in the audition. To make his point, Ozone shows her some street dancers who perform without ambition or pretension. Meanwhile, James books the trio rehearsal time in a dance studio, works to get them the audition, and gives them jackets emblazoned with “T.K.O. Crew.” When he meets resistance from the dance establishment, James dresses Kelly, Ozone, and Turbo in top hats and tails, and introduces them at the audition as the “Allegro Vivachi Dance Trio.” Franco spots them and alerts the judges, who forbid them from dancing because they are only looking for jazz dancers. Defying the head judge, Ozone tears the sleeves off his jacket and shirt and begins to dance. Kelly and Turbo join him and the judges give them a standing ovation. Franco withdraws his group from the competition and storms away. Sometime later, the production opens and the marquee reads “Turbo, Special K, Ozone in Street Jazz.